Except wiki is not a geography reference. Not even close. You are such a freaking idiot.

West Texas’ Guadalupe Range is in fact a southern geological and topographical extension of the Rocky Mountain Range. And the Rockies continue southward from there, to the Davis Range.

By the way, El Paso, which is in the Mountain Time Zone, mileage-wise is closer to the Pacific Ocean than it is to Texas’ own eastern border with Louisiana. Anyone who thinks that part of Texas is “in the south” is the freaking idiot, not me.

F-

]]>By: entagorhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6887348
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:07:32 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6887348The Governor might be OK, but I would run from Senator Susan Lobster Collins” Her gun trafficking bill, co sponsored with Patrick Leahy, is one that can be used for or against you

The bill would, for the first time, define gun trafficking and straw purchasing as crimes under federal law. It proposes harsh penalties for anyone who purchases a firearm or ammunition with the intent to transfer it to someone else, particularly in cases involving violent crimes or drug trafficking. The bill also would make it a crime to smuggle firearms out of the United States.

Federalizing gun purchases is a dirty can of worms. The penalties are for those who purchase with intent to transfer. How do you prove intent? Guess: federal regulations. And who writes those?

Any gun manufacturer ought to take his business far away from the non thinking Maine Senator, because her stupidity will set in motion gun control based on intent

Arthur, only one rino. King was never anything but liberal.
Marcus, Collins stabbed us in the back by co-sponsoring S.443.

dmacleo on April 15, 2013 at 5:32 PM
I’m in the western mountains of Maine, conservatives here are outnumbered and isolated.

aceinstall on April 16, 2013 at 11:26 AM

Oh ya – I keep forgetting King replaced Snowe – right?

]]>By: logicman_1998http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6886522
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:15:34 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6886522A Realty agent from the South shows a house to native Botonian. Here is a house without a flaw. The inevitable question was…What do you walk on?
]]>By: aceinstallhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6885560
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:26:38 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6885560dentarthurdent on April 15, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Marcus Traianus on April 15, 2013 at 3:07 PM
Arthur, only one rino. King was never anything but liberal.
Marcus, Collins stabbed us in the back by co-sponsoring S.443.

dmacleo on April 15, 2013 at 5:32 PM
I’m in the western mountains of Maine, conservatives here are outnumbered and isolated.

]]>By: dmacleohttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6882972
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:32:10 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6882972moving here would be the worst thing they could do.
lepage has been getting backstabbed at every chance and I expect a gun control bill here soon.
]]>By: Don Lhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6882869
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:18:03 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6882869

Never understood how all these companies have their HQs in the Northeast or eastern states…

catmman on April 14, 2013 at 3:55 PM

Maybe because the NE colleges were once based upon faith and the heavy load of immigrants were primarily Catholic–most of those now vote for Obama.

The NE schools are a breeding ground for anti-freedom intellectualism and no longer have the seeking of truth as their prime purpose.I could be reasonable in saying that their primary purpose is in the dissemination of untruth and PC and group-think is their mode of operation.

March 11-16 poll:Nearly 90 percent of respondents supported background checks, even when the sales are private or at gun shows. 64 percent supported banning ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets. And 57 percent want an assault weapons ban.

Ya – Maine has gone way left over the last few years. LePage may be a fairly solid Republican (I know the Dems in Maine HATE him – so that’s a good sign), but with so many lefties in the state, like the RINO twin Senators, there’s no way I’d move a gun company to Maine now. If Mainers vote LePage out in favor of a Dem governor, the gun control situation in Maine will veer hard left overnight.

]]>By: JIMVhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6881492
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:44:25 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6881492One cannot trust Maine. I lived there for years. It is deep blue and its remnant republicans are mostly raging rinos when one looks t their votes in DC..They have never seen a tax they do not like and have been infested with refugees from Mass who vote.

un companies should go where they will not have to move again in a decade as they are taxed out of business.

Maine has definitely changed over the past couple decades. I grew up there, and most of my family is still there, but I’ve been in Colorado for over 30 years now – which is getting worse as well.
Maine used to be fairly conservative due to the independent nature of a lot of the people – lobster fishermen, clam diggers, lumber industry, etc., and has a decent gun industry – Windham Weaponry, Smith & Wesson, and many more. But also had a strong union population – Bath Iron Works (ship builders) is a big union place.

There’s a lot of old downeast Maine humor that hints to the historically conservative nature of Mainers.
Old Bessy turned 85 and promptly went down to the town clerk and said she wanted to change her voter registration to Democrat. The clerk remarked “why Bessy you’ve been a Republican your whole life, so why change now?” Bessy says “well I figure at my age I probably don’t have much time left, so if someone’s gonna die, I’d rather it be one of them instead of one of us.”

Please stop that short bus = stupid nonsense. Those little kids don’t need grown men making fun of them.

rogerb on April 15, 2013 at 7:27 AM

It only stopped being true when they started foisting unruly brats that the school could take a paddle board to on the special-ed classes. Which not only creates a discipline problem for the sped teachers but shreds the chances of the regular short-bus riders of actually learning anything.

… such are the unintended consequences of passing legislation that “nobody” ever read.

]]>By: shar61http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6881346
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:26:43 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6881346New England in general is one of the most beautiful parts of our country. Maine is absolutely beautiful. When I visit there, I do not talk politics. I would be hard pressed to find someone that agrees with me on issues. I would not move a company into that state, not even chance it. The populous have become accustom to liberal policies and appear happy to have them.
]]>By: JeremiahJohnsonhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6881269
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:35:09 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6881269It’s a trap. I love Maine’s nature and still own property there, but the place took a hard left a while back and is now a badly managed entitlement state with extremely lax entitlement program and illegal immigration controls. It is basically propped up by rich retirees from MA and NYC (meaning its leftward slide is hardly coincidental). I wouldn’t start or relocate a business there on a bet.
]]>By: dominiganhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6881230
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:19:46 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6881230

You ever hear of yankee ingenuity? The north Atlantic coast was an industrial hotbed of development and technology. The South was an agrarian economy dependent on slave labor. Which one is going to be making all the guns?

Daikokuco on April 14, 2013 at 4:00 PM

There’s a key word in there somewhere… I just know there is…

]]>By: Fleurieshttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6881160
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:53:17 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6881160Maine voted and voted and voted again until they could get gay marriage to pass during an Obama election year.

The governor won because things with the Obama economy were so bad that tourists were not heading there and unlike the jet set in the White house, were enjoying stay cations at home with a good book.

They have always sent moderate senators to D.C.

Of course I hope, like you, that the R governor can turn things around. I just think you don’t know that they are blue collar populists and many there hate successful people with money because they don’t have any. They are easily coopted into arguments against the mysterious 1%.

I’m just laughing at this. I’m a former CA native and the only state that has more posers is probably NY. CA would be number one, but there are so many transplants there, they dilute the poser factor. Takes awhile for the noobs to get up to speed in that department.

I live in none of those places now, but I would certainly consider TX on a list of potential places to move if I owned a company that had anything to do with gun manufacturing. CA’s unemployment rate never recovered after the dot bomb crash. I don’t care what their GDP is anymore, they’ve wasted everything that they get their hands on (which is considerable with a population of 37 million people), and then some…with other western states being stupid enough to follow suit. There’s that old joke about an earthquake making CA fall into the ocean..it won’t be a real one that does it, but the economic earthquake that is coming to that state is going to turn the vast majority of that place into Detroit. They are the penultimate example of what not to do to succeed.

Back to the original topic, I would absolutely vote no for Maine. They’re a blue state so it doesn’t matter if the gov is welcoming. All it takes is an election to put you dab smack in the middle of the same crap that CO manufacturers are facing. If you’re going to move out, do it once.

]]>By: TX-96http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6881084
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:01:01 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6881084Even if Maine has some good people, so does NY. And look what happened.

TX has some libtard havens. Most of the major cities are pretty left like dallas, austin, houston and san antonio, however they can not run the elections because the rest of the state is so huge. The few in those places cant destroy the state with socialism if the rural areas wont allow it.

…rode the short bus. By the way, that inconvient coincidence is why all non-Southerners equate the Southern accent with unmitigated stupidity…

Daikokuco on April 14, 2013 at 5:20 PM

Please stop that short bus = stupid nonsense. Those little kids don’t need grown men making fun of them.

]]>By: MaiDeehttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6880882
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:24:10 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6880882Gun manufacturers better be a little leery of Maine. Maniacs voted for Obama by comfortable margins both elections. These liberal voters could easily turn on the gun people when another fruitcake explodes somewhere as we all know will happen because it always happens.

Then there’s the weather to consider. While it’s unfair to suggest that Maine only has two seasons–winter and the Fourth of July–or that a polar bear once froze to death in Maine–the winters are bleak, long, cruel and mournful. Be prepared for sore throats, fever and coughs carrying over well into the spring.

We just hit two years here(left Chicago in April, 2011), and while the weather’s temperamental and the natives talk weird…the freedom is wonderful.

]]>By: TKindredhttp://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/14/dear-gun-mfrs-come-to-maine/comment-page-2/#comment-6880814
Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:36:51 +0000http://hotair.com/?p=254881#comment-6880814I have at least 3 more years here in Maine that I am stuck here. After that, it’s selling the house, liquidating assets, and off to Texas. I promised the youngest after her mother took off that we’d stay here while she finished High School. She deserves some stability in her life, and i can suck it up for that long.

BUT……. when she’s off to the military or college, then I’m off to Texas. I’ve fought the good fight here for almost 40 years now, but I want to die in a place that still respects the Constitution, and the individual’s rights and liberties. Texas is that place.